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Share This Story! Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about Facebook Email Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest 6 states sue maker of OxyContin as they battle expenses, human costs of opioid crisis The lawsuits — filed in state courts in Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas — accuse Purdue Pharma of aggressively selling its drugs it spite of knowing the products were potentially dangerous. Sent! A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Nation's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs USA Today Network John C. Moritz, Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller Times Published 9:16 p.m. ET May 15, 2018 | Updated 9:25 p.m. ET May 15, 2018 CLOSE The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new numbers on the opioid crisis, saying the … [Read more...] about 6 states sue maker of OxyContin as they battle expenses, human costs of opioid crisis

North Dakota and five other states are filing new lawsuits accusing a pharmaceutical company of using deceptive marketing to boost drugs sales that fueled opioid overdose deaths.“Today, I filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. I believe that credible evidence exists to conclude that Purdue knew the serious risks of long-term opioid use and minimized or ignored evidence that its product could be deadly,” Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said of one of the nation's leading manufacturer of prescription opioids, including OxyContin.More than a year ago, Stenehjem’s office, together with a coalition of other states, launched an investigation that obtained hundreds of thousands of documents from the manufacturers and distributors of various opioid prescription medications. In the course of the investigation, Stenehjem said he concluded that Purdue Pharma is in large part responsible for fueling the opioid epidemic.Connecticut-based Purdue denied the claims in an email … [Read more...] about North Dakota joins lawsuit against maker of OxyContin

Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading Texas into a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma for exacerbating the opioid crisis among Texans. In an announcement Tuesday afternoon, Paxton, a Republican, flanked by other assistant attorney generals, said the state is taking the drug maker to court over misrepresenting the risks of opioid addiction. Other states including Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, North Dakota and Nevada are also pursuing lawsuits against Purdue. The lawsuit comes as more states, cities and counties across the United States are turning to the courts as they grapple with how to hold drug makers and distributors accountable amid a harrowing — and growing — epidemic that led to more than 42,000 opioid overdoses in 2016. Main culprits in the public health crisis include prescription painkillers such as Hydrocodone, Oxycontin, the synthetic drug fentanyl and heroin. The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. Become one. Texas has not been in the national spotlight … [Read more...] about Texas sues the maker of OxyContin over the opioid epidemic

Pureradiancephoto/Getty When Sean Thatcher was a sales rep at Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, doctors he visited often complained that their patients were developing tolerance to the opioid painkiller. Thatcher, who worked for the company between 2009 and 2015 in Montana, was instructed to tell the prescribers to increase the dose, and to clarify that addiction isn’t the same as tolerance, or “pseudoaddiction.” He received a bonus based on the number of opioid prescriptions written by the physicians he visited, with higher sales of OxyContin in particular garnering bigger bonuses. The allegations come from a testimonial included in a lawsuit that Montana filed against Purdue Pharma in February—one that is now part of national multi-district litigation alleging that pharmaceutical companies sowed the seeds of today’s raging opioid epidemic. According to the state’s complaint, Purdue sales reps in Montana paid far … [Read more...] about “I Was Directed to Market OxyContin:” A Purdue Pharma Rep Tells How He Was Paid to Push Opioids

U.S. Giuliani opioid oxycontin Trump purdue pharma Rudy Giuliani announced Thursday that he was joining President Donald Trump’s legal team in order to “negotiate an end” to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. It’s not the first time the former U.S. attorney has tried to bring a conclusion to a Justice Department investigation: more than a decade ago, the former New York City mayor intervened in a federal investigation into the illegal marketing of opioids on behalf of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. It’s unclear how successful Giuliani’s efforts were. No one at Purdue went to jail, and the company continues to sell OxyContin, a powerful and addictive opioid painkiller. But the company and its top executives eventually pleaded guilty to criminal and civil charges related to allegations the company knowingly misrepresented OxyContin’s addictiveness, ultimately agreeing in 2007 to pay more than $630 million in fines. That agreement … [Read more...] about Before Trump, Rudy Giuliani Tried to End DOJ Investigation into OxyContin Maker, But Its Legal Troubles Only Grew